Quick hand study

A quick hand study using mainly mech pencils & touched up in PhotoShop.

Cowboy head image

This is an image I'll be using and integrating into an upcoming mobile phone app. I'll be tweaking it to work at relatively small screen sizes as well.

10 min sketch

A quick 10 min sketch.

Ron Wood, Bobby Womack from rough to color

Here's the progress from rough sketch to final colored illustration of Ron Wood and Bobby Womack during a fleeting moment during Bobby's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Final:


Pencil Drawing:


Rough Sketch:

Whiteboard scissors

This was originally drawn on whiteboard, then subtracted out the background and then colorized and made some other treatments in PhotoShop.

Sketchbook page

Here's a page out of the sketch book - a quick Sharpie sketch of a goalie and a runner.

Quick sketch again

Here's a quick sketch of a polo player on horseback. I'm specifically trying to stop once I get the proportions down.

Quick Sketch of two women holding children

This took about 5 mins, just trying to get the rough proportions down.

Guy using laptop

Here's a quick sketch of a guy on a stool using a laptop.

Real world bad UI

In the last few weeks, I happened to notice some confusing signage in places I'm at on a regular basis and thought it might make for an amusing blog post. Just like bad UI in a software application, these bits of signage/labels made me stop for a second and scratch my head:


I have a spot on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Columbus, and all ramps are one-way. Here's the sign showing my way out. I guess they thought an arrow pointing the way out wouldn't give me enough information, so this not-arrow gives me the much more informative message that this is the way to not go for people going the direction I'm not.

Sometimes after a long day, I still have to pause for a millisecond when I see this sign. And this sign is not meant for the other guy, as he would have to have already come up the ramp to see that he shouldn't have.

Here are the elevator buttons I was using daily at the office:

Naturally, to go down, you can see that I pushed the top button.

In their defense, we are on the top floor, so the only way is down. So it looks like they just tried to reuse the same button panel as was on the other floors, only they decided to only mark the exceptional up button as down without marking the down button appropriately. Hope noone forgets they're on the top floor.